Marco Tutino's 'Two Women (La Ciociara)',reviewed by JAMES SOHRE

Mr Tutino collaborated on the Italianlibretto with Fabio Ceresa, adapting the story from a script by Luca Rossi, and based on the novelLa Ciociara by Albert Moravia. The two women of the title are the central character Cesira and her fourteen-year old daughter Rosetta. When World War II brings allied bombs and soldiers to Italy, the pair flee Rome, but not before a business colleague (the evil Giovanni) rapes Cesira during an air raid...